Office of the Historian

893.00/11681: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, December 19, 1931—noon.
[Received December 19—5:28 a.m.]

My December 19, 9 a.m. I have just had a talk with C. C. Wu who tells me that the Government is going to be very much preoccupied with governmental reorganization during next 2 weeks. He said that posts of Foreign Affairs and Finance in new Cabinet were extremely uncertain. He himself expects to take Chairmanship of Kwangtung.

I told him, as I told Koo yesterday, that I was going north on Monday13 to return shortly after the new year.

I and my French colleagues are expecting to dine informally with General Chiang Kai-shek Sunday evening. My British colleague leaves Shanghai today by Japanese merchant vessel for Tientsin.

Johnson
  1. December 21, 1931.↩